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From the moment I toured the lab during Admitted Students day, I knew that I wanted to work at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). On the tour, they encouraged reapplying if you don’t get interviewed your first time around, I couldn’t wait to apply so I sent in an application prior to even starting at UNH. To my surprise, I was interviewed and hired within a short period of time!

This week our student employees took a break from their typical work schedules to get together and participate in our third annual UNH-IOL Hackathon! The UNH-IOL Hackathon is an event where programmers across all disciples and experiences join up to tackle lab-wide problems and create long term solutions. Students are separated into groups to work on the project of their choice in this week long event. This week, I checked in with students to talk about the importance of Hackathons,...

We are excited to share the big news, we have hired 13 interns for the upcoming 14th year of our HighTech Bound Program. Their first day is Monday, July 8 for five weeks. We couldn't have done anything without the support of our 2019 Sponsors.

Aryan Aryan attends JL Mann High School in South Carolina. Aryan is very passionate about children's education and has helped raise over $3K to support international, educational

Back in early January I went to Paris for the OPNFV + ONAP co-located plugfest, which is a group testing event where companies come together to test their products. For this plugfest, people were testing the Gambia release of OPNFV against different hardware configurations and working on integrating components of OPNFV and ONAP together. I'm currently an undergrad student at UNH majoring in CS and work on OPNFV at the lab. I had gone on a couple of trips previously...

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Part of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab's (UNH-IOL) mission is to attract students to, and educate them for, future employment in cutting-edge technologies. We believe that this process should start early before students even enter college. Each summer the UNH-IOL recruits bright, ambitious high school students entering their senior year for a seven week paid internship at our state-of-the-art networking facility.

My name is Jeremy Hochschwender, and I work in the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) consortium at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). I'm a freshman at UNH, pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. My experience with the UNH-IOL started before I came to UNH. As a senior in high school, I looked at a lot of schools; the key thing I looked for was real world experience. I originally had no intention of going to UNH, as I didn't think that they had any programs that could compete with the co-ops that many other engineering schools offer today. One can imagine my surprise when I discovered the UNH-IOL. It was the perfect setup for me, as it would allow me to gain work experience within the industry just down the street from campus.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) staff is always open to providing a tour for visitors. We encourage you to make an appointment in advance. If you find you are here for a plugfest or just in the area visiting the lovely UNH campus, we do welcome walk-in visitors so don't hesitate to stop by, we will do our best to accommodate you. Read more....

Humans make mistakes, computers, by definition-- don't. So, what is gained by manually grinding out hours of testing? Besides, having the skill to operate variously branded remotes professionally, not much. My name is Richard "Boo" Strachan and throughout my internship, I have been trying to help with automation of many time-consuming processes dealt with daily in the Digital Living Consortium (DLC).

My name is Alicia O'Brien and I work in the IPv6 Consortium. I am a senior Computer Science major at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). This past spring I decided I no longer wanted to give out UNH parking tickets (and be public enemy #1) and I needed a Computer Science related job. I had taken a tour of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) during my Introduction to Computer Science class. I wasn't sure if I had the right skill set for the job until my Computer Science friends told me that a position at the UNH-IOL did not require any prior networking knowledge. I was informed that the UNH-IOL staff would teach me everything I needed to know. When I applied and eventually was hired into the IPv6 Consortium, I had no idea what IPv6 even stood for and promptly Googled the unfamiliar acronym.

Hello, my name is Evice Bolton and I am a freshman pursuing an Electrical Engineering degree. I was introduced to the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) the summer before my senior year of high school as an intern in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Going into that internship I wasnâ€™t sure what I wanted to major in, I was leaning towards Mechanical Engineering, but thought that Electrical Engineering might also be interesting. When I first started as an intern, it was incredibly overwhelming and everything was new to me! Nonetheless, everyone was really nice and helpful, they took the time to teach me the testing and answered the many questions I had. There were trips to some really amazing companies, where we got to learn more about the real world uses of the products that are tested in the lab and how technology continues to advance. The UNH-IOL not only functions as a place where vendors can get their products tested, but itâ€™s also a wonderful resource for providing students with pertinent information for their future career fields.

When telling people that I'm a Computer Science major, I'm often asked how I like being a woman in this field. I have yet to think of a satisfying answer to this question; I have never wanted to do anything else. The new Engineering and Physical Sciences building, Kingsbury Hall was just being completed when I arrived at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Move-in day found me, with my Computer Engineering Dad by my side, poking our heads into empty classrooms and offices and gawking through windows into locked rooms filled with equipment.

In August 2009, I was hired by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) as the Labâ€™s receptionist. My background consisted of only basic computer and technical skills that I had obtained throughout my three years earning an Associateâ€™s degree in Liberal Arts as along with prior experience growing up with a computer. A technical background was not as imperative in an administrative position as it would have been if I was hired into the lab as a technician in one of the consortiums. Over the next three years, I expanded my day to day responsibilities from answering phones and greeting visitors, to creating invoices, becoming an expert shipper, assisting with the hiring process and much more. Still after three years, I only had an elementary understanding of what the different consortiums did here at the lab.

Hey everyone its Jessica Constant from the Digital Living Consortium (DLC)! I am a junior Civil Engineering major at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and I would like to share with you my experience coming into the UNH-IOL as a Civil Engineering major. Most of the gentlemen in the DLC have majors that relate to computer sciences, such as Information Technology (IT) and Electrical Engineering (EE). Luckily, they are very patient and take the time to teach certain technical details, such as counting in binary. Coming into the lab was intimidating for me, knowing almost all of my coworkers had a computer science background.

The UNH-IOL has a 7,200 square-foot facility to support test events, holding up to 60 companies at a time. UNH-IOL hosted events allow both member and non-member companies to accomplish detailed, thorough testing with industry partners. These events typically focus on fostering the interoperability of a particular technology, often when the technology is in its first stages of implementation. Industry Forums and individual customers benefit from these events by gaining early access to unreleased products in new technology spaces, finding problems before their customers do, and obtaining feedback to draft standards.